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MP4 video will not play

My thunderbolt will not play my converted mp4 h.264 files. My other android devices play them fine. I have tried several different conversions with different settings. Even tried mkv. I am using dvdfab which is the best. I have tried several players - rockplayer, arcmedia, and still nothing. Anyone having an issue like this?

what kind of error message are you getting?

try the rockplayer app from the market

Try MoboPlayer, seems to play everything https://market.android.com/details?id=com.clov4r.android.nil

No error message
No error message just blank screen, temporary freeze up, and some kick backs to main menu. Sounds like it is just me. Wonder if something is wrong with DVDfab or my phone.

I'm having the same troubles. I have older video ripped via an older version of DVDFab that work and play perfectly but since I updated to v8.0.8.5 I cannot get any of the new videos to play. I'm currently working with DVDFab support on figuring out what's going on and I'll be happy to relay any info I get on a solution.

Funny that you say that
I just tried to play my older converted DVDFab and they also worked - same format. The new ones do not work. They actually freeze up my phone or at least bog it down to the point where I have to reboot. Please let me know when you hear something on this. I am in the process of trying to convert with a different converter to make sure it is a dvdfab issue.

Download Handbrake. That will let you do a batch convert of the files that won't play. Both the AppleTV and iPhone presets work well with the TBolt. Handbrake will also convert DVD files ripped to the computer, so you can still use DVDFab to rip, but convert with Handbrake till DVDFab gets their issues sorted out.
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I got the new rips working... I feel kinda dumb but I guess the new version defaults the audio to 5.1 and the stock player for Android as well as many of the other players will not accept a 5.1 audio file. All you need to do is set the audio to stereo. Here's a screen shot of the settings I use. I use a custom size of 800x480 and this can be selected by clicking on the button labeled video effect settings.

Im having that same problem my rock player doesnt work

There was literally a thread about this on the same page and in the same forum discussed today.... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025491

Music pauses when taking a photo with camera app?

how do i stop this from happening? Its very annoying.
BTW I Am on Serendipity 6.4 ROM so I don't know if its cause of that?

It pauses the music because the picture gets saved, causing the media scanner to run, causing the phone to stop the process of accessing media files.
I don't really think there is a fix for it besides not listening to music while taking pics.

Actually, I'd like to correct my initial response... I can take pics and listen to music with no pausing at all. I'm on Cog 4.1, but it might be because I have all my music files saved to my external sd, and all my pictures saved to my internal sd, so I'm assuming that when I take a pic and it saves it, the media scanner only scans the internal sd, leaving the external alone. I'm also using the NRG media player if that makes a difference. So I'd say try saving some music to your external and there should also be an option in your music player to play music from a certain directory, so change the directory to the external sd> music and see if it works.
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Yes it's about the player. I downloaded Winamp. It can play music while using the camera.
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Maybe try turning off camera sound?
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i noticed the same thing. i downloaded winamp and sure enough it plays the audio while taking a picture. i havent gotten a text message while listening with winamp, but will it play the message notification without pausing the music? that drives me NUTS. always having to put my phone on silent/vibrate while jammin out

Music and Android?

I think this is the one area Apple beats Android, you connect your iPhone it syncs no hassle, On android its all a bit of a nightmare.
I've tried Double Twist but the damn thing is painfully slow to sync, can't edit duplicates and whatever else, it looks good but thats about it.
Winamp looked good on the surface, I made my playlist went to sync it took forever, then when I added more songs to a particular playlist and went to sync again rather than adding to the original playlist on the phone it created another playlist, so you actually have 2 playlist of the same playlist old and new.
So basically I need a way to sync and a player on the phone. I appreciate you can just dump all your tracks on the music folder but its impossible to organise 1000+ MP3's this way, so they would need organised prior to going onto the phone.
Any advice?

Nothing easier than put the mp3's in the media folder. Why do you think, syncing with ITunes is easier. I hate that software.
I'm organising my mp3 with mp3tag!

em.20 said:
Nothing easier than put the mp3's in the media folder. Why do you think, syncing with ITunes is easier. I hate that software.
I'm organising my mp3 with mp3tag!
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Lol same here, mp3tag owns.

Winamp works fine for me; no duplicate playlists. Maybe give that another shot? I love winamp on the PC though, so my perception may be skewed a bit by fanboyism. You could try the Google Music Beta as well. I thought I wouldn't like it, but having my entire 200 GB music library streamable is pretty handy. Personally, I prefer to manually sort and tag my tracks on my PC.

Combo Winamp + mp3tag.
But i do'nt sync with winamp, putting mp3 on the folders is much faster...

i've been using google's music beta service to stream music to me laptop/phone. works great. only issue is the new music app has no controls in the notification center or lockscreen.

slugger09 said:
its impossible to organise 1000+ MP3's this way
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I don't understand. Your music app will automatically find your mp3's and categorize them for you. Just put your MP3's anywhere on your SD card and you're done.

Make music folder, drag and drop
I hated how ipods have to sync, like if I go to my friends house want want some songs then delete my songs then put all of his songs grrr iTunes...
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drag and drop to SD card. never used 3rd party... seems silly.

em.20 said:
Nothing easier than put the mp3's in the media folder. Why do you think, syncing with ITunes is easier. I hate that software.
I'm organising my mp3 with mp3tag!
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Unfortunately and I can't speak about mp3tag, but dragging and dropping at least doesn't compress the audio file to save space at no reduction of quality. Itunes does this, and Itunes really isn't all that hard to use either.
Audio from Apple devices are better quality most times, but multimedia is one of Apple's strong parts.(Although also a lot of times you won't notice a difference) The original music app for Android is okay for just music, HTC's is okay, Miui is pretty nice, and the new music app from Google is pretty nice too. The audio support for Android is getting better.

I originally used doubletwist but it kept doubling, trippling, and even quadrupled the number of times a song was in my library. Finally went to ISYNCR &isyncrwifi. Works great, fast.
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rumblee1 said:
I originally used doubletwist but it kept doubling, trippling, and even quadrupled the number of times a song was in my library. Finally went to ISYNCR &isyncrwifi. Works great, fast.
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It did that to me as well and that's the problem with most of these syncing solutions, there is no common sense.
And as for putting all on 1 folder in the SD card, Now say I want song 3 from album A on a playlist followed by song 6 from Album E and so on there is no easy way of organizing this on the phone which is why I like it done on the PC, I have various genres of music, I don't want a hardcore trance song followed by country.
Google music doesn't work in the UK either

Great post and some really useful tips there. I love resource lists like this. Have social bookmarked it in the hope that others can also benefit.

thanks for the tips

I also do drag and drop, but yes apple is smoother in this area.

slugger09 said:
It did that to me as well and that's the problem with most of these syncing solutions, there is no common sense.
And as for putting all on 1 folder in the SD card, Now say I want song 3 from album A on a playlist followed by song 6 from Album E and so on there is no easy way of organizing this on the phone which is why I like it done on the PC, I have various genres of music, I don't want a hardcore trance song followed by country.
Google music doesn't work in the UK either
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What you are describing here is what I do on "PowerAmp". I have folders (has option for folders or library), then if I want I use the built in "Que" to select songs from different folders. You can also edit tags in PowerAmp.

Wow. And here I thought I was the only one who uses mp3tag.

mp3tag , is a great

+ 1 mp3 tag
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Gorship said:
drag and drop to SD card. never used 3rd party... seems silly.
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i use meridian only to play mp3 for a single directory

[TIP/GUIDE] google music users. play wma and other formats ON YOUR ANDROID DEVICE

hey everyone. first let me explain. when cyanogen dropped support for wma on moving from cm6 to cm7 i was crushed. because im one of the odd people that have 2 computers. one is a windows media library which is a mix of wmas and mp3s and the other is an itunes library. which has apples formatting back from when i used an ipod. now i want all. ALL of my music on my phone. i have always been to lazy to cram all my music through a converter because that would take forever. well google music beta users. i have a solution for you. im sure many of you have already figured this out. but for anyone who doesn't have music beta yet or don't care. this may change your mind.
when music is uploaded to google music it it is converted automatically. but unlike doing it with some other program, the albums stay together and it all gets done at once!. 2 birds 1 stone. then go on your android device. phone tablet. get the music app. and wait for it to prompt you to sign in to google music. then hit menu and make available offline. check off all of your music that you want. and let it download! anything you uploaded in wma will play on your phone now because google did the converting dirty work for you
I have not tired this with itunes yet. but being music beta supports it im assuming this works with many more unsupported formats other then wma.
i hope this helps some people. i know it would help me

Excellent news, thanks for the heads up. I am gonna side load the apk now.
I live in the UK and we have to side load at the moment.

Music Setup

I don't think there is a lot of discussion about this, so I thought i would start one. Good evening, my name is Gregg and I am a recovering Ioser. It started out with just an ipod...you know it was convenient, it was shiny. It worked well. Buying music was a simple process. You clicked and could listen immediatly. At first it was just occasionally, but I got into the podcast scene and itseemed to fit me perfectly. Podcasts would let me listen to things while I was doing chores around the house. Eventually though podcasts on my ipod weren't enough for me. I also had to carry around a phone on the side, so I decided that maybe it would be OK to try a little iphone. The first click was awesome...phone and tunes...podcasts done well. I was hooked.
For two years I was doing a lot of Ios, but eventually the shiny IOS had me hooked. There were bills for apps that did nothing but make funny noises, their was music that I paid for but never listened to. I was hooked. I probably hit rock-bottom last year. My iosing was out of control and I thought I would go cold turkey. So I got my G2x.
Sorry for the goofy intro, but I though this would set me up a bit. Here's what I have itunes on the windows side. So getting music and podcasts from itunes to the g2X involves multiple layers.
1. Moving music to the machine.
2. Moving and managing podcasts
3. Playing and managing music (which includes playing, rating music and searchng through my music)
So I will start with the first question. From what I understand there are really two ways that I know of to move music and podcasts from itunes to your phone. One is doubletwist, the other is isyncr. There might be others, but these are the two that I worked with. of the two I went with iSyncr and here's why. Doubletwist has a lot going for it. Really a nice interface, and a nice music player on the android side. Its trying very hard to give me, an ex-ioser a bit of what I am missing. The sync app looks like itunes and allows me to sync my playlists. The app looks a lot like itunes. It plays music fine. The player struggled with my phone, though. Somehow it didn't cooperate with the cm7 ROM I am using. It wouldn't play well on the lock screen and seemed buggy. The syncing was buggy too. Genius podcasts wouldn't refresh when they changed on my itunes. There were workaround(relaunch itunes and doubletwist).
Isyncr is a 2.99 purchase. Its simple. You install the app on the android(you pretty much install and forget it) and it syncs when you launch the windows EXE on the memory card when the phone is docked to the computer. It works well. It syncs podcasts, and ratings. To me, that was important because I have this theory that I will rate my music into organization in itunes.Its flawless. I haven't tried the wifi setup, but I might in the future. It doesn't play your music, so its just a solution for syncing.
As for podcasts, I tried very hardto find a solution on the android side that will satisfy my needs right on the android. I bought the full version of pocketcasts. There are a lot of good things going for it, but there are bugs. One that was kind of a deal breaker was that if you try to advance the podcast in the player while its playing you lock up the app. Restart is the only solution. So, it was a good, pretty solution, but it had to go. I tried a couple other apps, but I wasn't sold.
So, ultimately, isyncr is my solution for podcasts too. It woks well, but it will require a daily sync. The advantage ultimatley of syncing from the desktop is also that I am able to make Mp3 CDs of podcasts as well as sync my podcasts from the same source. Simple, efficient and workable.
Which brings me to playing. I love google music(I have two more invites if anyone wants one), and it allows me to access my music when I am around wifi seamlessly. It allows me to make instant mixes based on a song. That's a killer feature. Combined with wireless access to all my music via the cloud its excellent. Advancing and moving within tracks and podcasts works well. Its not a full-feature app, but it works.
Almost there, there is one last aspect. I would like to rate music from my library while its playing. Isyncr has a nice widget that allows you to rate and see your playing apps and see the album art. Its part of the package. The ratings and playcounts go right back to itunes.
My preferences represent my unique quirks in terms of music and listening: I am a podcaster and a music listener and I prefer to rate my music. Because of this I am happy with: Isyncr and google music.
Long set-up, but ultimately I am asking you what your music listening setup is. Thoughts?

I use the standard music app since it has DTS for the g2x. Google music as well for some streaming music. Google Listen app for podcasts. I also like BeyondPod.
I drag and drop music. It's not fancy but I don't mind.

Power Amp with some EQ modifications and Voodoo Sound is how I enjoy my music. I used to use Doubletwist for syncing my music to my phone, but each update made more and more bloated, along with random freezes, so I just uninstalled it. Sony's Media Go software good is good for adding music, but I prefer to drag and drop into organized folders.
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If you're using a stock ROM, I'd recommend sticking to the stock player because of it's DTS feature. It greatly improves sound quality if you have it selected.